Influxos do céu na existência dos homens. Os escritos astrológicos na Península Ibérica (séculos XIII, XIV e XV)

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Simone Ferreira Gomes de [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: História; Idade Média; Astrologia - Aspectos sociológicos; Astrologia e psicologia; Iberica, Peninsula (Espanha e Portugal)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134156; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/19-01-2016/000857721.pdf

The knowledge about the stars recouped in the Iberian Peninsula from the Jews and Arabs in the eleventh and twelfth centuries was recorded in various vernacular writings from the thirteenth century. The spread of this knowledge, ordinarily called astrology, was usually linked to the knowledge of the future, both by the teaching of the astral configurations that provided good or bad influences, and the constant warning of the Church regarding the inadequacy of those who believed in astral determinism. Thus, from the accounts that talked about and described astrology, written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the objective of this study is to shed light on the ways to uncover the secrets of heaven, through the study of assumptions and the status of this knowledge about the stars, and through the inquire of the men who have dedicated themselves to it. The writings committed to differentiate the astrological knowledge (liberal arts) from a superstitious practice (auguries that relied on the effects of celestial influences) will be our tools to talk about the constitution of astrology in the period, highlighting its use in divination of the future, or, in other words, highlighting the place of astrological predictions on the Iberian society. The Court, the University and the Church were spaces that provided questions about what was to come, leaving glimpse the anxieties and concerns that said so much about what was feared or expected both about the future and the present of those who lived in the XIIIth, XIVth and XVth centuries . At this point, the ways to govern and to establish relationships with other men, with nature, with the body and the soul have been repeatedly attributed to the stars and, therefore, the astrologers were constantly consulted. Waiting for eternity, Christians saw in astrology a way to forward the most immediate issues of their lives, which means that they sought to achieve some fortune through those who...